Movies

Television

Finales this week: Jon Stewart signs off from the Daily Show, UnREAL ends its season and True Detective ends your pain. Premières: A new series set in the 1960s is called Love Child and a new teacher sitcom stars The Office’s Craig Robinson. Monday, Aug. 3 UnREAL (Lifetime, 10 p.m.) Will Adam find true love on the dating […]

Music

Broods, yet another band from New Zealand to come out of the confines of the internet and take the world by surprise is on the verge of dropping new material. The band, composed of siblings Georgia and Caleb Nott, has been recording new tracks for their sophomore album — release date unknown, but the band […]

Books

The federal Liberals and Conservatives are using “wedge politics” on the key issues of national unity and security to scare voters into voting for them, NDP leader Tom Mulcair is charging in a new book he has written.

Isobel and Terry Barkley have bought tickets to every single Big Valley Jamboree. That’s 23 years of country music and camping during the four-day Camrose festival that’s grown exponentially since the first time they attended, in 1992. Twenty-two, technically. One year the Airdrie couple couldn’t go — they sold their tickets to friends — but they bought them anyway because wanted to maintain their reserved seating.